When Ralphie is being put onto Santa's lap by the elf in the department store, she spins him around. The camera pans around, as if we are seeing what he sees as he is being spun and deposited in Santa's lap -- look down to the ground; the entire store is empty, as is the stair case he and Randy just came up to reach Santa.

Also, when they first arrive in the store and their mother is giving them instructions you can can hear the screaming of the children as they come down the slide. The same screams repeat themselves throughout the store scenes.

First of all you must know that they can't use different kids for all the ones that are screaming. and second of all I did notice that there were no people in the store, i just noticed that too. I just whatched that movie today and yesterday,not all the way through though. Since it's Christmas, and I noticed that there was another slip up. YOu know when the family is eating after Ralphy got into the fight. The father is takling about the Cubs, and he says that they are the terror of the centery or something. The Cubs were accually named the disaster.